MARCHING Synonyms: 85 Similar and Opposite Words

marching

verb

present participle of march

as in striding

to move along with a steady regular step especially in a group the band had to practice for hours to be able to march in perfect step

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as in progressing

to move forward along a course bleary-eyed commuters marching off to the train station for the morning commute

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Recent Examples of marching If this has proved conflicting, Gibney does not let on, marching from sacred target to sacred target with little apparent tentativeness. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026 Hundreds of residents returned to the streets the following day, marching toward the Trampolín and Benítez beach areas where migrants were camped and repeating the same chant, according to EFE. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Event echoes iconic Lincoln Memorial rally On Thursday, Courtney Pope, 48, was marching across the King Bridge to the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. — Matt Brown, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026 After marching from Crocker Park in downtown Sacramento, the protest groups engaged in verbal and physical altercations across a barricade formed by law enforcement officers. — Hannah Ruhoff, Sacbee.com, 27 Aug. 2026 However, human-like robots with blank faces and steel legs won’t be marching onto assembly lines anytime soon. — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Each academic school hosts their own ceremony, with students attending various departments — plus deans and senior leadership — all clad in their cardinal and gold regalia, marching behind their banners across the campus. — Staff Report, Daily News, 20 Aug. 2026 Central Park became a battlefield with artillery smoke, marching troops, and cannon fire. — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 17 Aug. 2026 According to a July Washington Post–IPSOS poll, the Iran war is now as unpopular among Americans as the Vietnam war was in its sixth year, but Americans are unlikely to be marching in the streets about it anytime soon. — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2026

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Likewise, in January, Disney's former chief executive Bob Iger hinted at the park's location in an Instagram post of him striding along the beach on Yas Island.

— Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
The pair of bronzes, designed by James Earle Fraser, each features a nude male figure (one holding a book, the other a bundle of grain) striding next to a Pegasus.

— Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 30 July 2026

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Subsense, which has raised $27 million in funding, is currently doing preclinical work, experimenting with various elements of the technology and conducting some experiments on mice.

— Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
Now, the two men — coach and GM — are in the process of doing exactly as each promised when they were hired.

— Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of doing

Verb

This is the second time this year that conferences have banded together to essentially stop something that was proceeding despite NCAA rules against it.

— Aaron Beard, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2026
Among other requests, the complaint asked the court to declare the firings unlawful under the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedures Act and bar the Pentagon from proceeding with the terminations.

— BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of proceeding

Verb

This is my personal version of those videos of soldiers coming home from war, and the other women react as such.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 31 Aug. 2026
From a design-forward city escape to an eco-friendly island retreat (and a uniquely historic getaway coming soon), discover what Patina can offer globe-trotters interested in a transformative way of traveling through life and through the world.

— Condé Nast Traveler, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of coming

Verb

Gerasimov also claimed Russian troops had overcome the first defensive line of the Sloviansk-Kramatorsk fortified region in certain areas and that operations were currently advancing along a 160-kilometer front.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
The institute will examine microstructure measurement using soft X-rays while advancing information science techniques for X-ray analysis.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026